<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do blacks identify with the Christian religionof their oppressors?Source: Diane Rehm Show guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14893]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and fortitude conquer all things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and fortitude conquer all things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep--   Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't listen to people who tell you what to do! Listen to people who encourage you to do what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't listen to people who tell you what to do! Listen to people who encourage you to do what you know is right! Because you have one life to live so live it your way!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup, That runs for ages without winding up?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  Christ did not throw about that great word Salvation. But once, in the heart of an angry crowd, their enthusiasm soured suddenly into a growling muttering. He applied it confidently to a man who, under the inspiration of His friendship, had broken with his sorry past and his old selfish, unclean ways, and was doing what he could to put things right. Now that, He said, is what I call a saved man. Very solemnly He tells us that on the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked the questions we are expecting, but others that will puzzle and startle us. Those folk on the left hand were, as far as we hear, respectable folk; their business books were straight, their home life was kindly, they themselves were clean-living men and women: nothing whatever is laid to their charge excepting this, that they lived in a world needing their help and were too absorbed in something -- what it was, we are not told; it may have been their souls -- to give what aid they could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19429]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven;  The rueful conflict, the heart riven   With vain endeavour,    And memory of earth's bitter leaven     Effaced forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31350]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think for a second the property won't be developed. We aren't naive. We just want something that's reasonable and well thought out and well financed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10940]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really encouraging to be around people who are so influenced by music. They have really incredible ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really encouraging to be around people who are so influenced by music. They have really incredible ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2857]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57893]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not science fiction. The fact is that the world will exist in 100 years, 300 years and one thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not science fiction. The fact is that the world will exist in 100 years, 300 years and one thousand years from now...This makes good sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9969]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27326]]></link><description><![CDATA[We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39850]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need to have the ability to take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's had little flashes where he looks like a big-league pitcher again. But he knows his command is not where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30455]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's had little flashes where he looks like a big-league pitcher again. But he knows his command is not where he wants it to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22429]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4053]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;  On eagles' wings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54749]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;  On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,   While virtuous actions are but borne to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37551]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61319</guid></item></channel></rss>